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Apr 17th, 2007 by Alex
USA is running National Treasure a few times this week. I caught it two nights ago and had a few thoughts. Someone else besides me has got to find it strange that it was produced by Walt Disney Pictures in cooperation with Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Jerry Bruckheimer. Mr. Blockbuster. The same man who loves flipping cars, expanding into the toned-down action movies? Weird.
I’m guessing Bruckheimer’s got Nicolas Cage and Trevor Rabin on speed dial, since they’re involved most times there’s a movie to be made.
“Yo Trevor, it’s Jerrry. Hey, how you doin? I’m gonna need more of that hero music. You know, the dramatic stuff that empowers the audience. Don’t make me call Hans. Nicky and I want to meet you for lunch down in Ojai. Cool.”
Trevor Rabin composed the score for Armageddon, Gone In 60 Seconds, Con Air, Bad Company, Bad Boys II and Enemy Of The State. All Bruckheimer films. Not sure what happened for The Rock, Bruckheimer got Nicholas Cage but opted for Hans Zimmer to score it. Maybe Rabin wasn’t available.
The movie is effectively The Da Vinci Code; Dan Brown’s book, since I’ve yet to see the movie adaptation. In both, the characters follow the clues to various treasures with a minor differences between the obvious simularities.
- National Treasure uses American historical documents and locations. Da Vinci Code, works of art throughout Paris.
- Masonic/Templar references versus those from Catholicism.
- Captain Fauche (with motives unrevealed until late in the book) is represented by Agent Sadusky (same, except a freemason), played by Harvey Keitel.
Dan Brown is expected to cover the freemasons in The Solomon Key, which will probably be a carbon copy of his two bestsellers with more American history involved. Hopefully less dramatic than Digital Fortress (which read more horribly than most of his other books combined, especially in regards to technical material). Maybe Bruckheimer will sue.
IMDB is the poo.
And both movies were equally “eh”.